Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Quotations
Democracy
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
-Winston S. Churchill
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
